Modern UI-based Windows Apportals for Windows 8.1 business users launched

Microsoft has just announced a new feature for businesses that use Windows 8.ane devices chosen Windows Apportals, which allows companies to create custom Modern UI-based menus for their corporate PC business.

Microsoft stated:

Windows Apportals address a long-missed insight in enterprise sales: customers use software from many vendors. Windows Apportals were built in response to numerous requests to create an "on-the-glass" integration for the broad variety of heterogeneous LOB (Line of Business organisation) apps that be in organizations today, including legacy Windows 7 Desktop Applications; newer Modern Windows 8 apps; and Web Applications.

The groupings in each Windows Apportal menu are made up of what Microsoft calls Filigree Tiles. They are similar to the Live Tiles in the Get-go sceens of both Windows Phone and Windows 8.1 in that they tin can brandish streaming data. Unlike Live Tiles, the ordering of the Grid Tiles cannot be changed by the individual user. just are under the control of the company's IT manager. Notwithstanding, the admin tin can customize each Grid Tile for each employee.

Microsoft says:

As a upshot, a unmarried Windows Apportal app can filter, share, and display data and functionality based on job role, organization, manufacture, and even geography – thereby enabling users to stay focused on the specific tools and information they demand to do their job.

Companies are free to create their own Windows Apportals for their PCs, or they tin can contact Microsoft or a third party to assistance them with that procedure. What do you recall of this new Windows Apportal thought and will it help to go more businesses interested in using Windows 8.ane?

Source: Microsoft

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